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Then Achren will be opening Bloodstock Open Air on Thursday 11/08/11 shortly after 5pm on the Sophie Lancaster Stage where we will be officially releasing our debut album, The Forgotten King.

Hope to see you all there and headbanging!

Here’s the amazon link: Achren: The Forgotten King

Get your pre orders for the CD release in here if you can though- you’ll save cash and help the band get to Wacken ;)

Album CD release pre-order

This will feature an Achren DJ set for the full evening, a showing of the Impaled at Bloodstock-Open-Air DVD at around 9PM and T-Shirt and DVD giveaways. We may also include some buffet for those of you early enough.

Of course the DVD will also be on sale on the evening and you can also request your favourite tunes throughout the night.

We hope to see you there.

If anbody attending can help us by inviting people and sharing this event that would be greatly appreciated.

1. Wings of War
2. Blood Soaked Banner
3. The Way of the Twilight or the Aura of Flies
4. Fury of the Northmen
5. The Forgotten King
6. Bastards on the Gallows or Bastards on the Rack
7. ‘Impaled’

We are having an official launch night for the Achren ‘Impaled at Bloodstock-Open-Air DVD on Saturday the 7th May, downstairs in The Solid Rock Cafe, Hope Street, Glasgow
This will feature an Achren DJ set for the full evening, A showing of the Impaled at Bloodstock-Open-Air DVD at around 9PM and T-Shirt and DVD giveaways. We may also include some buffet for those of you early enough.
Of course the DVD will also be on sale on the evening and you can also request your favourite tunes throughout the night.
We hope to see you there.

If anbody attending can help us by Inviting people and sharing this event that would be greatly appreciated.

THIS EVENT IS ALSO FREE ENTRY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMK8SI_v2g

http://achren.bigcartel.com

On tour with Beholder in March at:

3rd March – Grand Central, Manchester
4th March – Revolver Rock Club, Birkenhead
5th March – Queens Hall, Nuneaton
11th March – The Railway, Bolton
17th March – Ivory Blacks, Glasgow

More details tbc.

Achren Live Review on Glasgowmusic.co.uk

Other than that it’s been good to get a few gigs on the go, supported Vader the other week and should hopefully have a few more lined up shortly.  There should also be a new website at some point and a few more pics of the band as it is, gigs, recording and whatever else. As for recording, it’s not far off in some ways but then again, watch this space as always.

PS. here’s a wee clip from our recent Underworld show:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqifT5x8gU0

We’re chuffed to confirm that we will now be playing a slot at this years Bloodstock Open Air Festival 13-15th August in Derbyshire.

More details to be confirmed.

It’s a case of pay on the door, and apart from anything else the Classic Grand is a great venue and some good bands on the lineup so hopefully some of you can make it down on Saturday to show some support. 7pm doors and imagine the running order will be confirmed on the night. Also, I’m getting a bus to London at half four in the morning after the gig so should be some afterparty action post gig.

Formed in Scotland in 2003, Glasgow based Achren’s brand of metal is crushingly heavy and uncompromising. Filled with raw and razor sharp riffs, death metal growls, black metal screams, and pounding drums they create a unique and commandeering sound which over the course of their first two demos and subsequent releases have forged the term ‘Blood Metal.’

Since the line-up solidified in 2009 they have sought to build a reputation as one of the most sought after and feared bands in the UK today, to great live critical acclaim and have managed to build a steady fanbase throughout the country along the way.

Having shared stages with the likes of Morbid Angel, Destruction, Devildriver, Onslaught and Dismember to name but a few, Achren have augmented their growing reputation in the UK metal scene, and through positive reviews, national press coverage with the likes of Metal Hammer and Zero Tolerance, and some hard work managed their first tour in Scandinavia in 2007.

Their next move saw the production of the single ‘Blood Soaked Banner’ by esteemed metal producer Dave Chang, and accompanied by playlists on the likes of Totalrock, a Terrorizer magazine cover-mount CD appearance, a live BBC session, widely regarded as a first in their genre and the radio station, and a gruelling and relentless UK promotional schedule, they furthered their reputation as a leading dark in the underground UK metal scene.

Having spent 2009 working on their debut album, and managing to find the time to tour under the Northern Brutality tour moniker, the band consisting of Scott Anderson – Vocals, Guitar, Callum Kirk – Lead Guitar, Gordon Johnston – Drum and John Clark Paterson – Bass, as well as providing high profile supports to the likes of Vader, Sabbat, Chthonic and Hecate Enthroned, performed at the UK’s premier independent metal festival ‘Bloodstock-Open-Air 2010.’

A DVD of their full ‘Bloodstock Open Air 2010′ was released in March 2011.

After touring the UK in the early part of 2011 the band then undertook a Summer festival tour that saw performances at ‘Wacken-Open-Air’ (GER), ‘Metalcamp’ (SLO), and a triumphant return to open the UK’s Bloodstock-Open-Air to open the 2011 festival.

August 2011 also saw the UK launch of the band’s debut album ‘The Forgotten King’ recorded in Scotland, mixed by Mathias Helle at Drop Hammer Studios, Finland and mastered by Jens Bogren (Amon Amarth, Devin Townsend, Bloodbath) at Fascination Street Studios, Sweden.

Achren look forward to the prospect of spreading their aural brutality to countless thousands and terrorizing the rest into faithful submission.

Achren are also looking forward to a Scottish tour sometime in the autumn/winter- dates TBC at the end of November so far, and more extensive gigging in the UK and elsewhere should follow.  We’re not dead, hopefully not forgotten, still here despite ourselves but thanks to those who’ve supported us and look forward to heading out stronger than ever from now on.